Meaning

Lasting a short time; of short duration..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lasting a short time; of short duration.
2. Occurring with a short time of a specific event.
3. Pertaining to work that has been short-timed.
4. Of a sex worker, engaging customers for a brief sexual encounter rather than an extended period such as the whole night.
5. (transitive, human resources) To reduce the amount of workhours in a given time period.
6. (Vietnam, prostitution) To hire or be hired as a sex worker for the time period that ends when ejaculation is reached.
7. (transitive) To cut short the duration of something.

Example Sentences

The average rate on short-time loans, based on these bank reports, is 10.75 per cent.

The hue and cry against the short-time test was started by breed competitors and was largely a matter of sour grapes, and breeders who listen to this cry are simply playing into the hands of their enemies. Whatever valid objections there ever may have been to the short-time test made early in the period of lactation has been met and entirely counteracted by the short-time test made eight months after calving.

It will be a reasonable requirement to insist that short-time users pay their charges in advance and that unless paid in advance before the tenth of the month the company may discontinue service.

To many contemporary observers, especially to those who were short-time visitors, the bizarre bodily movements and ritual manipulations of the native spiritual practitioners were little different from arctic hysteria.

In this higher approximation to the short-time effects, the shock is no longer stationary or trapped unless it is supported by a negative steady-flow back pressure;

The degree to which short-time changes in price are associated with short-time changes in supply of and demand for butter provides some basis for appraising the pricing system.

To borrow some terminology from statistical physics, we are interested here in the “quenched” short-time behavior of p_y, as opposed to its "annealed" behavior.

Lines represent short-time trajectories with travelling time T < 14 days.

Word Forms

• more short-time
• most short-time
• short-times
• short-timing
• short-timed

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